A show about relationships with the land

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Ep. 260 : New Year, New Egg Case
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Ep. 260 : New Year, New Egg Case

I was out for a walk along the Eramosa River in Guelph with a pal on New Years Day, when she lifted a log and showed me some strange white patches along it. I guessed by the appearance of them, being small, white and silken-like, with many around, that they were likely egg cases of some small invertebrate.
White, circular with a thin shallow dome constructed of webbing got me wondering who may have created this? I decided that this find, like a lot of the small wonders of the world would be worth researching a bit and recording a show about.

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Ep. 193 : Spiders of North America with Sarah Rose
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Ep. 193 : Spiders of North America with Sarah Rose

I am overwhelmed sometimes by the sheer diversity and quantity of Spider species I encounter. So many! I take a ton of photos and bring them up on my computer hoping to try and identify a couple, and maybe write about who I am seeing out there, but the precious few who I have been successful in identifying are just that, the precious few.

It has been hard to find a good field guide to Spiders. When I recently I got a copy of Spiders of North America by Sarah Rose I was stoked.

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